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APUSH Chapter 22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Union general who was head of the Freedmen's Bureau. | Oliver O. Howard |
| 17th President of the United States--was impeached. | Andrew Johnson |
| Vice President of the Confederacy. | Alexander Stephens |
| Man behind the 14th amendment which ends slavery. Stevens and President Johnson were absolutely opposed to eachother. Known as a radical republican. | Thaddeus Stevens |
| Secretary of State under Lincoln who purchased Alaska in 1867 for $7.2 million. It was referred to as "Seward's Folly." | William Seward |
| Taught about 200,000 blacks how to read; also read the word of God. | Freedmen's Bureau |
| Slaves who moved from the Confederacy to Kansas. | "Exodusters" |
| Required 50% of the states' voters to take oaths of allegience and demanded stronger safeguards for emancipation than the 10% plan. | Wade-Davis Bill |
| The southern states could be reintegrated into the Union, and also acknowledge the emancipation of slaves. | 10 percent plan |
| Laws aimed at keeping the Black population in submission and workers in the fields. Forbade blacks from serving on a jury. | Black Codes |
| System in which landowners leased a few acres of land to farmworkers in return for a portion of their crops. | sharecropping |
| Tried to give blacks the privilige of American citizenship, but was vetoed because they struck at Black Codes. | Civil Rights Act |
| All blacks were American citizens, if a state denied citizenship to blacks, then its representatives in the Electoral College were lowered, former Confederates could not hold federal or state office. | Fourteenth Amendment |
| Speaking campaign of Andrew Johnson in which he tried to gain support for his Reconstruction policies. | "swing around the circle" |
| Divided the south into 5 military districts, each commanded by a Union general and policed by Union soldiers. Also required that states wishing to come back to the Union must ratify the 14th amendment. | Reconstruction Act |
| Banned states from denying African Americans the right to vote. | Fifteenth Amendment |
| Was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled suspension of Habeas Corpus by President Abraham Lincoln as constitutional. | Ex parte Milligan |
| By 1870 southerners had reorganized their governments and were granted their rights again. | "radical regimes |
| Largely former slave owners who were the bitterest opponents of the Republican program in the south | Redeemers |
| Southern whites who went South during Reconstruction to buy up land from desperate southerners. | carpetbaggers |
| A secret society of white Southerners in the United States. Was formed in 1860 to resist the emancipation of slaves. | Ku Klux Klan |
| Passed in 1870 and 1871 to put a stop to the torture and harassment of blacks by whites. | Force Acts |
| Was passed which limited the President's power by prohibiting the President from removing civil officers without Senate consent. | Tenure of Office Act |
| The purchase of Alaska from Russia. | "Seward's Folly" |
| Northern militaries were sent to the South to take control of southern states. | Military Districts |
| A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office. | Impeachment |
| 49th state admitted to the Union; bought from Russia in 1867 by William Seward. | Alaska |
| African American minister who was elected to serve in the Senate--first black minister. | Hiram Revels |
| The constitutional amendment ratified after the Civil War that forbade slavery and involuntary servitude. | Thirteenth Amendment |